This week I have been spending quite a bit of time visiting a woman named Georgina.  She is the mother of two boys that come to the Ithemba after school program.  Shoni is three and Taki is about ten.  On Tuesday I went to her house and we baked a cake. Georgina had no idea how to bake and she really wanted to make a cake for Taki's birthday - which was over two weeks ago.   It's a tradition here that when it's your birthday your mother bakes a cake and you take it in for your school class to enjoy. Georgina, having no money and no idea how to bake a cake, couldn't make one for him. So, we made him a belated b-day cake! Georgina was so eager to learn and help in whatever we needed to do next.  The cake looked great and we even made fun icing! While cleaning up, I helped wash a few of the dishes in the sink. When I unplugged the drain, all of a sudden water started spilling out from under the sink.  I pulled back a board and realized that they didn't have pipes but only a bucket to catch all the water under the sink!  Water was running all over the kitchen floor and it must have been uneven because all the water ran back to a cabinet and to the bedrooms.  I felt so bad because I had no idea what to do. There was quite a bit of water all over the floor, but all I had was a wet dirty dish rag.  I left soon after feeling like I was just in the way and hoping that they let me back in the house again.  I had no idea they didn't have pipes. They had a microwave, an oven, and a nice sink so I assumed that they would have pipes under their sink.  I should have realized THIS IS AFRICA.  I went back the next day to apologize and Georgina was so sweet. She didn't care at all about the water and told me it was her fault she didn't tell me about the bucket under the sink.  I have probably visited her and her family almost everyday this past week and our friendship is really starting to blossom.